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May 2014
Job Search behavior model: Examination on Job Search Motivation.
Noor Awanis Muslim ,
University TenagaNasional, Malaysia
David Dean and David Cohen,
Lincoln University,
New Zealand
Abstract
Today's employees are more career conscious than ever. They are demanding more in terms of personal growth
and development. Organizations that fail to allow employees to meet their individual needs will be losing
valued employees.
Past literature reveals that intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors are able to generate feelings of happiness
amongst employees. Many researchers observe that their happiness lead to good job performance; helping the
organization in achieving its goals efficiently and effectively. This is because happiness indicates the increase
of employees’ motivation level. Motivation has received great attention from many past researchers. The
outcomes from these researches perhaps helping the enhancement of the organization
The absence of happiness switch them to search for alternative job. They switch careers to be happier. Failing
meeting employees' expectations caused decreasing level of motivation ultimately contribute to increased job
dissatisfaction. However, motivating factors vary across employees. This variation exists because the
employees have different needs and expectations to achieve.
In relation with this reason, this research aims to examine the job motivation factors across supervision level
responsibility. The process of digging out the real job motivation factors may help avoid job dissatisfaction and
to increase happiness among the potential employees.
The findings of this research will contribute
theoretically and practically to the job search motivation field.
Keywords: job dissatisfaction, job supervision responsibility, motivation to search
Introduction
The absence of job satisfaction lead individuals to search for a new job [1]. Job search is a way to
improve employee‟s employment conditions in one‟s current organization [2]. Previous researches observe that
individuals (employees), motivations and job related information are able to influence job search
behaviour[3],[4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Job satisfaction can be definedas “the pleasurable or positive emotional state
resulting from the appraisal of one‟s job or job experiences [9]. Many employees respond to searching for
mechanisms that allow to increase their satisfaction [5], [6], [7]. However, the lack feeling of job satisfaction
probably leads to job search [3], [4], [8]. The lack of job satisfaction is derived from such as factors: unmet
expectations due to inaccurate information obtained at entry [10], the absence of person-organization fit: lack of
congruence between employees‟ personalities and organization attributes [11] and low salaries offered and
difficult working conditions [12].
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Dissatisfaction varies among employees because of the different values and expectations they have
towards their jobs [13] including differs across employees‟ level and occupation [3], [14]. Furthermore, [9]
suggests that needs exist regardless of what the employees want and values are subjective, depending on how
employees interpret situations. He also highlights that employees have the same basic needs but differ in what
they value, which leads to a variation of expectations. He adds that “what the job provides” and “what an
employee needs” also contribute to job satisfaction. If the “what job provides” does not fulfill the “what an
employee needs”, job dissatisfaction is the likely result. Therefore, employees (individuals) play a role in
determine job search behaviour.
In relation to the above mentioned, each employees were driven by different motivations in searching
for alternative jobs [13], [9]. Motivation can be defined as strong desire and energy to achieve something; a
process that guides an individual in generating a good impression on others [15],[16],[17],[18]. For the purpose
of current research, job motivation is used and the factors that were involved such as the job itself or the job
conditions [19].[20][21],[22].
Literature review
Job satisfaction to job dissatisfaction
Job satisfaction is a well research topic in such fields as industrial-organisational psychology, social
psychology, organisationalbehaviour, personnel and human resource management and organisational
management [5][23]. The topic of job satisfaction has attracted worldwide interest due to its ability to explain
the attitudes of individuals towards their works. It has also contributed to the understanding of well-being in a
society and recently, improving the well-being in a society. For example, [24] focus on related issues such as
happiness and economics, job security [25] and job rewards [26].
The issue of employee job satisfaction is a critical factor to any organisation[23][27]. It represents the
health of an organisation. This is because the quality of services that are offered by the organisation largely
depend on the job satisfaction experienced by employees. Job satisfaction refers to the overall evaluation and
the emotions employees have towards work roles they are currently occupying.
Definitions of job satisfaction are varied. After reviewing the published works, [9] concluded job
satisfaction as “ a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one‟s job or job
experiences” (p. 1304). He suggests that the individual‟s reaction reflects both cognition-value discrepancy and
value importance. He also adds that the impact of weighting individual‟s response to various job satisfaction
factors by value importance would be redundant and unnecessary since importance is already reflected in the
responses to job satisfaction factors.
Previous research findings suggest that needs, values and expectations of individuals, job characteristics
and its context are the determinants of job satisfaction [9][27]. [9 suggests that needs exist regardless of what
the employees want and values are subjective, depending on how employees interpret situations. He also
highlights that employees have the same basic needs but differ in what they value, which leads to a variation of
expectations. He adds that “what the job provides” and “what an employee needs” also contribute to job
satisfaction. If the “what job provides” does not fulfill the “what an employee needs”, job dissatisfaction is the
likely result. Dissatisfaction varies among employees because of the different values and expectations they
have towards their jobs[13].
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Types of occupations and job satisfaction
The previous section shows that employees‟ values and expectations differ depending on the fit between
what their job provides and what they need from it. Dissatisfaction also differs across employees‟ level and
occupation. For example, managerial staff and engineers are more likely to be dissatisfied with salary and about
the job itself, whereas technicians and clerical staff are more likely to be dissatisfied with current working
conditions [3][14]. These examples clearly show that staff at different levels of responsibility of job may feel
and think differently towards their needs and wants. Unfulfilled needs and wants motivate employees to search
for new jobs.
[28], reveals that level of satisfaction is varied depending on employees‟ needs and values. His study
suggests that white-collar employees are satisfied when their intrinsic rewards are fulfilled as compared to bluecollar employees who are more satisfied when their extrinsic rewards are fulfilled. He also adds that the level
of education tends to influence the level of satisfaction. [29], explains that education is the one most important
factor that influences employees‟ aspiration in their work process. The more education a person has received,
the greater the need for control and creativity. Besides education, intelligence, personality and occupation itself
are important factors that influence employees‟ aspiration. Furthermore, he notes that white-collar and
professional work involves more variety, control, purpose and responsibility than blue collar.
[30], examine job satisfaction with the teaching profession. They found that factors that influence job
satisfaction amongst teachers dominated by school context such as value consonance, supervisory support,
relations with colleagues, relations with students‟parents, time pressure and discipline problems. Job context
play a role in providing satisfaction to this group.
Motivations
Many contemporary authors have also defined the concept of motivation. Motivation has been defined
as: the psychological process that gives behaviour purpose and direction [15]; a predisposition to behave in a
purposive manner to achieve specific, unmet needs [16]; an internal drive to satisfy an unsatisfied need [31]; the
will to achieve [32]; and including the recent one below.
For example, [17] divided the definition of motivation into three parts: (1) dealing with the drive or
energy behind individual (s) action, as individuals are guided by their interest in making a good impression on
others, doing interesting work and being successful in what they do, (2) referring to the choice people make and
the direction their behaviour takes, (3) dealing with maintaining behaviour and clearly defining how individuals
persist at attempting to meet their goals. Within this paper, motivation is operationally defined as the inner
force that drives individuals to accomplish personal and organizational goals.
[18]Defines motivation as “a person‟s active participation and commitment to achieve the prescribed
results.” This means that motivation is important for organisations to function well; without motivation,
employees could not offer their best resulting in the company‟s performance being less efficient. Previous
definitions seem relevant for work motivation but did not clearly address the definition of work motivation; and
with [33], psychological processes cause the stimulation, direction and perseverance of voluntary actions that
are goal targeted.
Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation
Based on [34], intrinsic motivation is known as an important construct in motivating people to do a
particular job; however, extrinsic motivation is seen as an external control reflection or true self-regulation. It is
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obvious from this that both types of motivation a motive for basic human needs for autonomy, competence and
relatedness.
In most prior research, findings used different job types or job level as a subject in measuring intrinsic or
extrinsic motivation. For example, [3] reveals that engineers are happy with job intrinsic, while assemblers
with job extrinsic. Similarly with [35], a higher ranking technical employee preferred intrinsic values compared
to lower ranking of technical employees who responded to extrinsic motivation. In contrast, [36], found that
both levels of accountants treat intrinsic and extrinsic motivation the same way when measuring their level of
motivation towards job satisfaction and job performance. Therefore, the argument here is that it cannot be
generalised that intrinsic motivation is applicable to employees of the upper level and extrinsic motivation for
the lower level.
Research method
A self-administered questionnaire was developed. The target population of this study was the
employees of electricity provider during 2 months survey period. A random sampling was applied.
The questionnaire is used in this study. Not only the right question are asked, but also that the
respondents are understood and asked in the right way. This is because any imperfections will result in poor
quality data such as measurement errors and possibly biases. The questionnaire consisted of the following
major sections: questions relating to the employees‟ background and questions that measured Job Search
Motivation factors.
Research variable: Employees’ background
Most studies of employee background using „type of job title‟ and „job level‟ (for example,
[3],[37],[38],[39],[28],[40],[41],[35],[42],[43],[44], as a measurement scale to examine the relationship between
the employees‟ background and the constructs in job search research.
Job titles are used by employers to categorize positions in their organization. When employers post jobs,
the job posting will include a job title. A job title is a brief description of the responsibilities of the position, the
level of the job, or both. For example, [3] had used engineers and assemblers (high vs low level group) as his
type of job title in his research.
Therefore, in this research‟s questionnaire, employees‟ background was asked in demographic section.
The question is including Job Title. Next, the level of Job Supervision Responsibility also were asked in the
questionnaire.
Research variable: Job search motivation factors
There are variety ways of using motivational factors in previous job satisfaction literature. For example,
1) [45] uses motivational and hygiene factors as measuring the impact of motivation towards satisfaction.
Motivational factors regarding factors that are derived from inside of the job itself, meanwhile, hygiene factors
referring to factors outside of job itself. 2) Some prior research has had treated motivation factors in terms of
extrinsic (external) and intrinsic (internal) (for example, [46],[7],[36],[47]. In relation with the above
discussion, Job Search Motivation factors are about factors that concern of the internal and external of the job
itself. Thus, this research has divided job search motivation factors into three sections; Salary, Current Working
Conditions and Job Itself.
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In this research questionnaire, salary is reviewed in terms of good salary, better salary and satisfied
salary. It been reviewed to see how it able to influence employees motivation in searching for alternative
employment. Current working conditions referring to outside factors of the job itself such as supervision,
interpersonal relationship, company policy and working conditions. It examines the perspective of employees
in identifying their job search motivation factors. Finally, job itself also been used to complete current research
analysis. Job itself is evaluated in terms of responsibility, recognition, achievement, advancement and nature of
the job. It is measured to see the employees' perspective towards behaviour of information seeking. The degree
of consensus has been asked in order to evaluate the employees' perspective towards behaviour of information
seeking. The degree of consensus is examined with Likert scales ranging from strongly not agree to strongly
agree.
Analysis
This study employed survey in data collection. The questionnaire used Likert scale and categorical
measurement. This data represents quantitative data. Therefore quantitative analysis is employed for this study.
This study begins with reliability test in order to ensure that all the variables used are reliable and valid. This is
important before proceeding with next data analysis in answering the research hypothesis.
Bivariate correlation analysis is used in this study because it provides an objective and systematic way to
analyze data. As consequences, results based on correlation are less likely to be subject to bias, they are
consistent, the basis for the decisions can be fully explained and they are generally useful. The gains are
especially well documented when compared to judgmental decisions [48],[49].
In this analysis, Pearson Correlation (r), was used in order to assess the quantitative variables are
linearly related in a sample. On top of that, Pearson Correlation (r) is used because each case have scores on
two quantitative variables (for example, continuous variables measured on the interval or ratio scales). The
significance test for r evaluates whether there is a linear relationship between the two variables in the
population. The appropriate correlation coefficient depends on the scales of measurement of the two variables
being correlated.
Findings
Examine job search motivation factors
Table 1 illustrates the mean comparison on motivation for job search. These were compared between
levels of Job Supervision Responsibilities. It shows that the most influential factor that motivate employees to
search for an alternative job was Current Working Conditions, followed by Salary and finally Job Itself.
Table 1: Mean Job Search Motivation factor and Job Supervision Responsibilities
Job Supervision
Mean
Standard deviation
1
Responsibility
Salary
CWC
Job
Salary
CWC
itself
No responsibility
3.69
3.94
3.73
0.70
0.48
Guided
4.11
4.14
4.12
0.78
0.51
Supervise
4.21
4.17
4.12
0.70
0.44
Plan and Supervise
4.38
4.35
4.34
0.67
0.51
Total
4.05
4.12
4.04
0.76
0.50
1
Current Working Condition
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Job
itself
0.52
0.66
0.47
0.59
0.61
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Table 1 shows that Current Working Condition plays a role in influencing employees to search for
alternative employment. It indicates that it is important for employees to have comfortable working conditions,
a good relationship with supervisors and peers and with a secured company policy. The fact that there is only a
minor mean difference between Salary, Current Working Condition and Job Itself; but it still can be considered
as useful information for an organisation when dealing with employees‟ Job Search Motivation issues.
Examine the background of employees with respect to level of Job Supervision Responsibility in
identifying its relationship with Job Search Motivation Factors
As mentioned above, to see the comparison between levels of Job Supervision Responsibility towards
Job Search Motivation Factor, three hypotheses were tested. The result is shown in Table 2. For this particular
analysis, Job Search Motivation factors refer to Salary, Current Working Condition and Job Itself were tested to
see whether they support or otherwise H12, H23 and H34.
Table 2: Correlations between job supervision responsibility and job search motivation factors
Pearson‟s correlation
coefficient
Salary (H1)
Current working
condition (H2)
Job itself (H3)
.309**
.235
.294
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level
For Hypothesis 1, the result shows that there is a correlation between Salary and Job Supervision
Responsibility. The relationship was highly significant (p=0.000). The result supports Hypothesis 1. It shows
that the higher the level of Job Supervision Responsibility is the stronger the salary is as a motivator for seeking
a new job. The result was not supported for the Hypothesis 2. The correlation coefficient for this relationship
was positive and significant (0.235), however, it was tested as a predicted negative. Therefore Hypothesis 2
was rejected. Finally, for Hypothesis 3, the direction of the correlations was significant and positive. The
correlation bivariate also was conducted for each item of Job itself towards supervision responsibility (see Table
3). The result for each item was highly significant and positive. This overall supports hypothesis 3. This
indicated that those employees who held higher Job Supervision Responsibilities will strongly consider the
nature of job when seeking new employment, thus supporting Hypothesis 3.
2
The higher the level of responsibility of the job seeker is in his current position, the stronger the Salary is as a motivator for seeking a
new job.
3
The lower the level of responsibility of the job seeker is in his current position, the stronger the Current Working Condition is as a
motivator for seeking a new job.
4
The higher the level of responsibility of the job seeker is in his current position, the greater the Job Itself is as a motivator for seeking
a new job.
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Table 3: Correlations for relationship between each item in job itself and supervision responsibility
Responsibility
Supervision
.190**
responsibility
Recognition
Job itself
Achievement
.338**
.369**
Advancement Nature of
job
.124*
.2778*
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level
Given the above results, this research aims to illustrate the variance between the levels of Job
Supervision Responsibility towards Job Search Motivation Factors. Hence, multiple comparisons were
conducted in order to look at the variance in relationship between salary and job supervision responsibility. A
post-hoc LSD5 revealed employees holding No Supervision responsibility only differed significantly from other
Job Supervision Responsibility. See Table 4, 5 and 6.
Table 4: Multiple comparisons for Salary
(I)
JS
R6
(J) JSR
Mean
Std.
Difference Error
(I-J)
Sig
(II)
LSD
No
responsibility
Guided
Supervise
5
6
Guided
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
95% Confidence
Interval
-.42092
-.51509
-.69186
.10530
.12199
.15162
.000
.000
.000
Lower
Bound
-.6281
-.7552
-.9902
-.09417
-.27094
.11146
.14328
.399
.060
-.3135
-.5529
.1252
.0110
-.17677
.15595
.258
-.4837
.1301
LSD = Least Significant Difference
JSR = Job Supervision Responsibility
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Upper
Bound
-.2137
-.2750
-.3935
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Table 5: Multiple comparisons for Current Working Condition
(I)
LSD
JS
R7
No
responsibility
Guided
Supervise
(J) JSR
Mean
Std.
Difference Error
(I-J)
Sig
Guided
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
-.19938
-.23814
-.41367
.07036
.08150
.10130
.005
.004
.000
95% Confidence
Interval
Lower
Upper
Bound Bound
-.3378
-.0609
-.3985
-.0777
-.6130
-.2143
-.03876
-.21429
.07447
.09573
.603
.026
-.1853
-.4027
.1078
-.0259
-.17553
.10420
.093
-.3806
.0295
Table 6: Multiple comparisons for Job Itself
(I)
LSD
JS
R
No
responsibility
Guided
Supervise
(J) JSR
Mean
Std.
Difference Error
(I-J)
Sig
Guided
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
Plan &
Supervise
-.39723
-.38951
-.69406
.08368
.09694
.12049
.000
.000
.000
95% Confidence
Interval
Lower
Upper
Bound Bound
-.5619
-.2326
-.5803
-.1987
-.8512
-.3770
-.00772
-.21684
.08857
.11386
.931
.058
-.1666
-.4409
.1820
.0072
-.22455
.12393
.071
-.4684
.0193
A summary of findings
Hypothesis 1, 2 and 3 were developed to answer the research objective. The objective is to examine the
background of employees with respect to level of Job Supervision Responsibility in identifying its relationship
with Job Search Motivation Factors. From the findings, Hypothesis 1, 2 and 3, apparently show that when
searching for a new job, high level of Job Supervision Responsibility is influenced by Salary, Current Working
Condition and Job Itself. This research presumes that there is a difference between levels of Job Supervision
7
JSR = Job Supervision Responsibility
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Responsibility towards Job Search Motivation Factors when the search is on for a new opportunity employment.
Table 7 illustrates the answer for Research Objective.
Table 7: Summary of Research Objective two
Examination of levels of Job Supervision
Responsibility towards Job Search
Motivation factor
High level of Job Supervision Responsibility
are motivated with Salary, Current Working
Conditions and Job Itself in new job seeking.
Discussion and conclusion
Within Job Search Motivation, the current research suggests that three different needs of employees are
involved. The first set of needs is the built-in drive to counter challenges from the environment. Thus, within
the industrial setting, this means current working conditions. For example, an uncomfortable working place
makes it necessary to find a better environment this in turn becomes the specific drive. The second set of needs
is monetary based. For instance, having an outstanding debt makes earning money a necessity. Money thus
becomes the identified drive. The final set of needs relates to unique job characteristic that is directly related to
job content. For example, an individual who wants to experience growth in his job makes it his motivation to
expand his job scope. This need thus becomes the specific drive.
Current findings agree with the initial Motivation Theory by Herzberg (1956). This research has further
broken down the two needs discovered. Between Current Working Conditions, Salary and the Job Itself, the
findings discovered that Current Working Conditions was the most influential factor that motivates employee to
search for alternative employment from the perspective of Job Supervision Responsibility.
Based on this, the employees are therefore more concerned with having a secured and comfortable
working environment before they consider the Salary and the Job Itself. This suggestion agrees with [50],[51]
and [52]. If employees are secured in their working environment it will help in generating true motivation.
True motivation is an essential factor in achieving success for the organization.
From overall findings, this current research suggests that job search motivation factors can be viewed
from three aspects; monetary, non-monetary and job itself.Furthermore, across job supervision level
responsibility, this research observes that current working condition is the most factor that can motivate
employee in searching alternative job.
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